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Crawford confirms the brilliant strategy of the D&D team. Thanks for posting the highlights Morrus. Sales and fans returning to D&D are proof that they are doing something right.

Bravo!

 

[flaviosobrenome]

Everyone who used to read Dragon Magazine.

Thanks! Gonna ask these people about it.

 

[Mistwell]

Speculative, I realize, but this smells a little bit like they are bracing us for more classic stuff from other campaign settings to be shoehorned into the Forgotten Realms. I really, really, don't want to see Mordenkainen hanging out with Elminster in Shadowdale hiring a party of adventurers to go on a quest to defeat the Dragon Kings from Dark Sun because they tried and failed to conquer the world in Athas so now they're trying it on Toril. ...yawn...

Oh, and Keraptis, having failed to steal the magic weapons Wave, Whelm, and Blackrazor on Oerth has now moved to Toril and is building a new underground volcanic dungeon in Mt. Hotanow in the Sword Coast. I can see it now... The White Plumes of Mt. Hotanow.

If the plan is to appeal to nostalgia, the only people who are going to care about the nostalgic elements are also the same people that will hate that they're ripping the elements from their original habitat.

Er...I've been playing since 1977, and what you just described sounds awesome to me!

 

[Staffan]

Tiamat implied to be Takhisis?!? Obviously he was suffering a cold and on sudafed. Obviously.

Takhisis is a five-headed dragon. She's either Hiram McDaniels, or she's Tiamat. Deal with it.

 

[Staffan]

And just like that my hopes for a new animated D&D series are resurgent.

I know of a bunch of voice actors that would be perfect for it...

 

[El Mahdi]

"It is canon that Elminster (FR), Mordenkainen (Greyhawk), and Dalamar (Dragonlance) know each other" - does anyone know anything else about it?

The Wizards Three articles from Dragon Magazine, written by Ed Greenwood.

There's a good synopsis and list of articles here .

 

[sstacks]

Takhisis is a five-headed dragon. She's either Hiram McDaniels, or she's Tiamat. Deal with it.

My comment was tongue in cheek, but yes I know the general consensus is they are the same.

I just always like to stir the pot because I'm a Dragonlance fan (orginal Dragonlance, anyway).

 

[sstacks]

Lets not get hung up on the exact dictionary meaning of a single word again, please, folks. There's too much actual interesting stuff to discuss here. First person to post a dictionary definition of the word loses the internet.

Plus he said at least 9,999 other words, too!

I live on my feet, Morrus!!!

noun1.a small cap, usually of metal, worn over thefingertip to protect it when pushing a needlethrough cloth in sewing.

 

[sstacks]

Takhisis/Tiamat and Bahamut/Paladine is an old Planescape era piece of lore. Same god worshiped differently on different worlds. Never outright STATED that was true, but it was heavily implied. (Same was true for Tharizdun/Elder Elemental Eye).

Of course, Dragonlance took 30 some turns to make it untrue, but its not something he pulled out of his kiester.

That Sudafed's makin' the rounds I tell ya!

 

[Benji]

I like the idea of a shared universe and used to love spelljammering around avoiding the flying pig cavalry too. I just worry that in doing so each setting loses a little bit of it's flavour. Dark Sun especially but others too.They go to all the trouble of creating a way in the DMG of saying different worlds feel different, I hope they remember it when they're making multiversal adventures. It also feels a little like they feel the realms never had any good bad guys so they're bringing others over.

I'm not gonna go out and say they're going to ruin it though. I'll wait and see. They could blow me away. They've done it with multiversal stuff before (Vecna Lives!).

 

[Bluenose]

Chris Perkins has needles and seeds which thread several years into the future, with seeds planted as early as Tyranny of Dragons which will take fruit later.

As a gardener familiar with what happens when you plant seeds, I'm assuming there's going to be a very low rate of sprouting from those. Unless it's as bad an analogy as I expect.